Chicago Shakespeare Theater: Suiting the Action to the Word

Regina Buccola

Published by Cornell University Press 2013

Chicago Shakespeare Theater

Suiting the Action to the Word

Regina Buccola

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501756863

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About this book

The Chicago Shakespeare Theater is widely known for vibrant productions that reflect the Bard's genius for intricate storytelling, musicality of language, and depth of feeling for the human condition. Affectionately known to natives of the Windy City as "Chicago Shakes," this vanguard of Chicago's rich theatrical tradition celebrates its silver anniversary with this bracing collection of original essays by world-renowned scholars, directors, actors, and critics.

Chicago Shakespeare Theater unveils the artistic visions and decisions that helped shape this venerable institution and examines the theater's international reputation for staging such remarkable and provocative performances. The volume brings together works by such heralded drama critics as Terry Teachout, Jonathan Abarbanel, and Michael Billington; theater industry giants like Michael Bogdanov, Edward Hall, and Simon Callow; interviews with the Chicago Shakespeare Theater's own Artistic Director Barbara Gaines and Executive Director Criss Henderson; and essays by such noted figures in academe as Clark Hulse, Wendy Wall, and Michael Shapiro.

Author / Editor information

Regina Buccola is associate professor of English at Roosevelt University in Chicago. She is the author of Fairies, Fractious Women, and the Old Faith.

Peter Kanelos is an assistant professor in the department of fine and performing arts at Loyola University Chicago. He is the editor of Thunder at a Playhouse.

Reviews

Matthew Kozusko, Ursinus College:

This collection is an enjoyable, dynamic, and occasionally stunning read.

Beatrice Bosco, DePaul University:

As the first book about the Chicago Shakespeare Theater, this book offers a valuable resource to anyone interested in the work of this theater company. Overall the scholarship of these essays is excellent.

David Bevington, University of Chicago:

The Chicago Shakespeare Theater has made a contribution of inestimable importance to the Chicago cultural scene. This fine collection of essays is a worthy and fascinating tribute to the genius of Barbara Gaines as theater maestro extraordinaire. To quote Antony from Julius Caesar, 'When comes such another?' Or, as Enobarbus says of Cleopatra in Antony and Cleopatra, 'Kneel down, kneel down, and wonder.'

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Introduction Regina Buccola and Peter Kanelos Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
PART I
1. Chicago First Terry Teachout Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	27
2. Catapulting Shakespeare into the Present The Artistic Vision of Barbara Gaines Regina Buccola Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	30
3. Barbara, Shakespeare, and Me Jonathan Abarbanel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	52
4. The Spatial Rhetoric of Chicago Shakespeare Theater Jonathan Walker Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	57
PART II
5. This One's for the Girls Millennial Ladies in Josie Rourke's Twelfth Night Alicia Tomasian Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	77
6. Short Shakespeare! and the Corruption of the Young Jeffrey Gore Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	95
7. Doing Things with Words ... and, Sometimes, Swords Peter Sagal Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	99
PART III
8. Chicago Shakespeare Simon Callow Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	111
9. Chicago Shakespeare Theater and the Canadians Richard Ouzounian Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	113
10. The Framing of the Shrew Gina M. Di Salvo Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	117
11. Michael Bogdanov An International Director's The Winter's Tale at Chicago Shakespeare Theater Bradley Greenburg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	140
12. Risky Business Rose Rage at Chicago Shakespeare Theater Clark Hulse Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	155
PART IV
13. In Defense of Ruffled Feathers Michael Billington Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	181
14. "Never did young man fancy" Troilus and Cressida and Chicago Shakespeare Theater Peter Kanelos Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	186
15. At Home with Shakespeare Merry Wives on Stage Wendy Wall Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	208
16. Two Merchants The Glow of the Roaring Twenties and the Shadow of 9/11 Michael Shapiro Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	229
17. Gender Blending and Masquerade in As You Like It and Twelfth Night Wendy Doniger Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	248
Notes on Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	271
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	275

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Language: English
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Audience: General/trade;
Pages
- Main content: 304
Illustrations
- Other: 32 halftones
Keywords: Michael Shapiro; Wendy Wall; Clark Hulse; Chicago Shakes; theatrical tradition of Chicago

eBook

Published: December 15, 2012
ISBN: 9781501756863